14-letter words containing t, h, u
- unenlightening — not enlightening; not clarifying
- unenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
- unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- unhumanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
- unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
- unit character — a characteristic, usually controlled by a single gene, that is transmitted as a unit in heredity.
- unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
- unmathematical — not characterized by or using the precision of mathematics; inexact; imprecise
- unmerchantable — (of goods) not suitable for trading
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unrhythmically — in an unrhythmical manner
- unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- unstrengthened — not strengthened or reinforced; not given additional strength
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- unthankfulness — the quality or condition of being unthankful; lack of thankfulness; ungratefulness
- unthoughtfully — not thoughtfully; in an unthoughtful manner; thoughtlessly
- untouchability — the quality or condition of being an untouchable, ascribed in the Vedic tradition to persons of low caste or to persons excluded from the caste system.
- unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
- up to high doh — extremely excited or keyed up
- up to the ears — very deeply
- up to the mark — acceptably good
- upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
- vitreous humor — the transparent gelatinous substance filling the eyeball behind the crystalline lens.
- volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
- weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
- west-southwest — a point on the compass midway between west and southwest.
- western church — the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes with the Anglican Church, or, more broadly, the Christian churches of the West.
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
- white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
- white-knuckled — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- whorehouse cut — a cut in which a pack is divided into two parts, each of which is divided again before the pack is reassembled.
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- win through to — If you win through to a particular position or stage of a competition, you achieve it after a great effort or by defeating opponents.
- witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
- without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.